In Fear of
Intimacy, the authors bring almost 40 years of clinical experience to bear
in challenging the usual ways of thinking about couples and families. They
argue that relationships fail not for the commonly cited reasons, but
because psychological defenses formed in childhood act as a barrier to
closeness in adulthood. A wide range of cross-generational case studies
and powerful personal accounts illustrate how the "fantasy
bond," a once-useful but now destructive form of self-parenting,
jeopardizes meaningful attachments... (Read
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